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In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: What are My Rights at NSW Music Festivals? Our short video about rights at music festivals in our state. Click here to read the article...

NSW Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann last year laid the blame for the breakdown in the drug law reform agenda that had been progressed by members of the current NSW cabinet, only to then fall apart, at the feet of new...

The Minns government launched the Early Drug Diversion Initiative (EDDI) on 29 February 2024 with little fanfare, which is a shame because it does mark a long-pushed-for improvement on the zero-tolerance law enforcement approach to personal drug possession that had...

Right now, the New South Wales drug driving laws that facilitate police roadside drug testing are unjust, and, over the last decade, when this open secret has been raised in parliament, conservative MPs feign a lack of understanding regarding the...

In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: The Involuntary Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program in NSW Magistrates are empowered to compel those who are suffering from severe dependency issues to undertake treatment,...

The doctrine of ‘joint criminal enterprise’ – also known as complicity or acting with a common purpose – provides that a person may be found guilty of a criminal offence in certain circumstances, even if they did not physically participate...

The Queensland Police Service announced on 23 January that officers from its Counterterrorism Investigation Group had executed multiple warrants at Brisbane residences, in relation to protest actions that took place in Tingalpa and that capital city earlier in the month. According...

Two cannabis activists who beamed a cannabis message onto the sails of the Opera House have not only had the charges brought against them dropped, the New South Wales Police Force will need to pay for their legal costs. The...

A just released report advises that reforms to New South Wales drink- and drug-driving laws, which have seen penalty notices, triggering licence suspensions and fines, issued to first-time low-level drink drivers and drivers with the presence of drugs in their...

Whilst most people know that there are criminal laws against possessing recreational drugs like MDMA, heroin and cannabis in New South Wales, it is perhaps less commonly known that possessing some pharmaceutical medicines without a valid prescription can also amount...